Punctuation marks, revisited!
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Alice Marwick
Aug 24, 2011, 12:00:56 PM8/24/11
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First, thanks for providing such a great tool.
I'm writing a technical report using some Wordles we made from Twitter data and am curious why Wordle strips out most common punctuation marks but not the @ sign?
My two hypotheses:
- @ isn't a punctuation mark
- When @ is appended to a longer string, it is not stripped out (e.g. @amarwick) in the Twitter corpus
Don't get me wrong, I am VERY happy that you don't strip out the @ sign! But I'm curious as to why.
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I'm writing a technical report using some Wordles we made from Twitter data and am curious why Wordle strips out most common punctuation marks but not the @ sign?
My two hypotheses:
- @ isn't a punctuation mark
- When @ is appended to a longer string, it is not stripped out (e.g. @amarwick) in the Twitter corpus
Don't get me wrong, I am VERY happy that you don't strip out the @ sign! But I'm curious as to why.
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